[tmtvl]

GNU/Linux gamers are always decrying GOG, saying they won't buy stuff from them because Galaxy doesn't run on GNU/Linux, now we're getting people saying GOG porting Galaxy to GNU/Linux is bad!? By Taranis, GOG just can't get a break, can they?

[paride5745]

Yep, luckily they represent a very small, albeit loud, minority of Linux users.

The vast majority of Linux users are very happy to get an official GOG Galaxy for Linux. I hope they will plug into Proton and collaborate with Valve, but we really need official tools and brands on Linux for common users to feel comfortable enough to come over.

[zamalek]

Couldn't agree more! I have been purchasing on steam due to the lack of a native client, especially save game syncing. As a bonus, as a greenfields project, maybe we'll see less cruft than the native Steam client.

[zombot]

How is GNU/Linux different from Linux?

[pygy_]

It is the same thing, just emphasizing that the OS is more than the kernel, and than the userland comes from the GNU project.

The latter had been designed to be a full OS but didn't have a functional kernel when Linux was released, and Torvalds adopted the GNU userland for his project.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

[coryrc]

Android/Linux also exists.

[craftkiller]

And Chimera Linux which is GNU-less. I guess you could call it FreeBSD/Linux but I think that'll just confuse people.

[Rebelgecko]

Stallman preferred nomenclature

[kachapopopow]

linux is the kernel gnu is the full operating system

[bigstrat2003]

Linux is both the name for the kernel and the full operating system.

[kachapopopow]

yah it's silly, linux typically refers to "everything" using the linux kernel. Aka Linux.

[andrewmcwatters]

Linux is definitely not a "full operating system."

Here's Linux built on GitHub Actions, with Grub[1], and you can't do anything with it. I include a reference init that does nothing, per kernel.org. 17.8 MB image.

GNU is by every practical measure, everything else. People memed on Stallman for the whole GNU/Linux naming, but he's basically right. There's also Android/Linux, that another user mentioned, and some distributions which don't use a GNU userland at all.

But the wide majority of people are using GNU/Linux, or some ecosystem derivative of it, like people using GNOME, which was formerly a part of the GNU project.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/linux-workflow

[jdkfkgkkdbkd]

Nobody cares! ”Linux” is used as a name of the OS.

[justonceokay]

GOG needs to contribute 0-day fixes to the kernel, otherwise they’re not committed to Linux /s